enthusiastic - Story 44728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of pipe tobacco and old books filled the air as David explored the study. A burst of joy erupted within him as he lifted the aged documents from a chest. He found what he was looking for: a forgotten folder. Inside, lay a single sheet of paper.

He recognized the familiar curves of his grandfather's script. A draft resignation letter, addressed to the head of his university department. His pulse quickened; he leaned forward, eager to devour the words. He read the letter, letting each word soak in, and then reread it again. He could not wait to understand this new aspect of his grandfather.

Emotion: enthusiastic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.81 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.04

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enthusiastic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 enthusiastic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enthusiastic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enthusiastic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.734
`!`	0.715
`excitedly`	0.591
`!"`	0.575
`🤩`	0.575

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.925
`ness`	-0.507
`😞`	-0.456
`それでも`	-0.348
`বারবার`	-0.325